Deuterium · Dyson Sphere Program: Ingredients and crafting planner

Using this reference

Before gathering materials for Deuterium, choose the recipe or variant you actually intend to make. Alternative recipes are separate shopping lists: combining their inputs would overstate the cost. The quantity you enter is the number of finished items you want, so a recipe that produces several at once may leave a small surplus.

Start with the ingredients you have the least of. A large stock of one material cannot make up for a shortage of another. The list covers the final crafting step; if an ingredient is itself crafted, open its reference separately before planning a gathering trip.

What changes between variants

Deuterium includes 2 recorded variants. Comparing Deuterium Fractionation with Deuterium changes these fields: Recipe / training time (s): 1 → 2.5. Select the variant that matches your situation before using its figures in the calculator. The intermediate records remain in the full table if you need a closer comparison.

A worked example

Suppose you want 1.03 × Deuterium. This recipe produces 0.01 per operation, so you need 103 operations. That produces 1.03 in total. The direct material list is Hydrogen × 1.03.

One useful comparison

For Recipe / training time (s), Deuterium is listed at 1, compared with 1.5 for Magnet: a difference of 0.5. This compares that field in the recorded variants only. Read the other fields before deciding whether the trade-off matters to your use.